Filipino Arrogance (May Pag-asa pa ba ang mga Pinoy na magbago?)

A friend complained to me one time about an arrogant resident in the subdivision where we both live. The man is just living with his relatives, not a home owner. He was a “mere tricycle driver”yet he has the guts to complain about a dog that accidentally escaped from the cage. The dog however was immediately caught and brought back to his cage. So what’s the reason he should be complaining. My friend, being a professional at that and who did not mind other people’s business, didn’t like the idea being accosted by anybody without a valid reason.

Sensing the tricycle driver was just trying to catch attention just ignored him and left him to avoid trouble. But the guy was so stupid enough not to understand the action of my friend, avoiding trouble, followed him and kept complaining. And finally my friend got tired and told the man, “If you think my dog committed a crime for escaping in his cage, better bring this case to the court and let the judge decide on it.”

“Ano kaya kung nagging abogado pa ang tarantado, di lalong nagging mayabang pa siya at mangaapi pa ng iba (What if he became a lawyer he could have been more arrogant and perhaps even oppressed other people)?

I have been personally studying Filipino arrogance over the years. It is quite amusing to note, Filipinos who had been former slaves have the tendency to enslave other Filipinos. Even a Filipina domestic helper who had been treated like slave serving her foreign employer acts like a “donya” (a very rich woman) when she returns home. It is common to see Filipino contract workers when they come home spend all their earnings buying expensive appliances, giving up parties, and wear valuable jewelries, etc. just to show up.

“Mayabang talaga ang mga Filipino, maporma. Matabii lang sila sa mga makapangyarihang tao at may sinasabi ay napakataas na rin nila. Kaya huwag mong tularan ang mga ganitong klase ng tao (Filipinos are very proud; they are very showy of their possessions. If they have some rich and influential friends in the government, they think they are already that high and untouchable. Don’t imitate these kinds of people,” my grandfather used to t ell me.

Along this perspective I remember what my grandfather, who worked as a sugar cane planter in Hawaii, used to remind us. “Ang kayabangan, katamaran, at kasakiman ay mga negatibong katangian na naglalayo sa mga tao sa pag-unlad. Kung hindi magbabago ang mga Pilipino sa ganitong pag-uugali, mapagiiwanan tayo (Arrogance, indolence, and greed will be our greatest obstacles to progress. If Filipinos will not discard these negative values, we will always be left behind).

While this does not apply to all Filipinos, I believe many of those who sink in poverty have one way or the other allowed these negative traits to rule their lives. Is poverty a consequence of negative “valueing”?

“You may say to yourself, “My power and the strength of my hands have produced this wealth for me.” But remember the LORD your God, for it is he who gives you the ability to produce wealth, and so confirms his covenant, which he swore to your forefathers, as it is today. If you ever forget the LORD your God and follow other gods and worship and bow down to them, I testify against you today that you will surely be destroyed. Like the nations the LORD destroyed before you, so you will be destroyed for not obeying the LORD your God.” Deuteronomy 8:17-20

Pride is natural to the human heart. Would one suppose that such a people, after their slavery at the brick-kilns, should need the thorns of the wilderness to humble them? But such is man! And they were proved that they might be humbled. None of us live a single week without giving proofs of our weakness, folly, and depravity. To broken-hearted souls alone the Saviour is precious indeed.
Nothing can render the most suitable outward and inward trials effectual, but the power of the Spirit of God. See here how God’s giving and our getting are reconciled, and apply it to spiritual wealth. All God’s gifts are in pursuance of his promises. Moses repeats the warning he had often given of the fatal consequences of forsaking God. Those who follow others in sin, will follow them to destruction. If we do as sinners do, we must expect to fare as sinners fare.

It’s sad to learn that many Filipinos abroad do not want to be identified as Filipinos anymore because they are ashamed and bitter about the negative traits and characteristics of their fellow Filipinos. Who wants to be identified as an inhabitant to one of the most corrupt countries in the world? Who wants to be identified with people who are arrogant, lacking in discipline, prying on other people to survive, and being opportunistic? Who wants to be identified with people who behave like vipers, who like crabs pull each other down, and too difficult to unite? Who love to deal with liars, plunderers, and perhaps even those who commit murders? You can not change the fact that you are a Filipino for simply ignoring you are a Filipino.
But being born a Filipino you can not change what you are even if you change your citizenship. Better love your own people, do whatever you can to help transform the Filipinos to become one of the most respected people in the world. But prepare yourself if ever, the way is long. It will take many years to see a transformed Philippine society.

But there is a shortcut to this. Jesus said, “I am the truth, the way and the life.” There is still a time to repent and be transformed to conform with the glory and righteousness of God.

The tricycle driver knows his rights than that “professional”. Maybe the tricycle driver jumped on the occassion to show that a marauding dog would likely bite a passersby. The tricycle driver, most likely, though he knows his rights, didn’t have the finisse and polished way of communicating to that “professional”.

In the Philippines a tricycle driver, a housemaid, or some lowly clerks should not and cannot show their intelligence and education. If they do, they’d be looked at as arrogant. The professionals will likely say “so you know, saan ka ngayon, drayber ka lang pala … bwesit!”

OK. Let’s turn the story around. What if the tricycle drayber was a manager in his Armani suit berating a tricycle driver. Filipinos would look at it differently.

In civilized world, like Europe and America, people there are looked at equally. In the Filipinas it’s what you drive, the clothes your wearing and most of all speakengese goot-country-club-perpekt-englischtzes.

You are crazy. Plain Crzy. Typical Filipino Crzay and it’s people like you that make Filipinos look bad and make Filipinos abroad want to be ashamed. Its normal for Filipinos that are steady abroad to be ashamed of where they come from. Imagine, you turn on TFC and you always see gay men, filipinos always yelling on dramas/soap operas, and when your in the store filipinos always doing the ,ssshhhttt….It’s more or less the status of the Philippines. Filipinos are smart, but why havent they corrected the govt. yet. 25 years of unresolved corruption of democracy. Every election, 80% of votes always going to someone who screws up the govt. even more. Don’t Filipinos ever learn from their mistakes. No progress..and whats with the selfish (kanya-kanya mentality) No wonder Filipinos are not considered asians. We say we help each other but don’t. If Filipinos want to progress…first things first, change the mentality and stop the kanya-kanya enviyous mentality and get rid of the gayness there, and fix up the media so there are more informative educational pograming instead of this crazy stupid dramas over overcrying and yelling.

Filipinos in America are pathetic people. I have a niece who was born and raised in America. She speakengese goot-bisdak. I mean, when she speakengese bisdak, IT’S BISDAK! nary a hint that she’s born and raised in America.

Flippos would immediately ask, “kaylan ka dumating?”. This goes to show that Flippos in America are surprised if your child don’t speakengese goot-country-club-perpekt-englischtzes. Meaning, further, that Flip children should not be taught their language.!!!!

Flippos are weird bunch of people. I gave up being a Flippo. I speakengese my proud Bisdak! I don’t believe in their God-chock-full-of-unfulfilled-promises! I don’t make excuses!

A professional Filipino don’t take orders by fellow FLIPpinos below him. IT’S NATURAL TRAIT OF FLIPpinos! NO MATTER HOW HIGH YOU STACK BIBLES AND DECORATE THEM WITH ROSARIES, FLIPpinos are still oblivisous and ignorant. GOD FAILED TO RE-engineer FLIPpinos!!!

Now, God-apologists, place that re-engineering responsibility on us! I thought, really, god answers our prayers but GOD HAS GOOT EXCUSES!!!! AND FLIPPOS SWALLOWED IT HOOK AND SINKERS!!!!

In this blog’s last paragraph … Jesus is not the shortcut, mind you. It’s a long cut. It’s been 480 years since Filipijnos startedxc praying and nothing happened. We’re sooo left behind just like any other Catholic countries …

Filipinos cannot be inspired. No matter how hard we work, nothing happens. Prayers don’t work. Now that the church is aware that prayers don’t work, they’re blaming the government. Shouldn’t god intervene in behalf of the praying majority? It seems God prefers the corrupt. Because the corrupt gives bigger tithe to the church. NOW THAT’S CORRUPTION.

How many bureaucrats who live on corruption and died happy? And, these god-apologists says “Let’s see where God sends them to, HEAVEN or HELL”. If that’s the case, LET’S STOP SNIPING THE CORRUPT IN GOVERNMENT, anyways, GOD WILL SEND THEM TO HELL.

A very large segment of Filipinos are clinging to hope that their current economic status can still turn for the better, outnumbering a small number of compatriots whose persistent morose outlook continues to cast a pall of hopelessness over the Filipinos� ability to grow as a nation.

Reading the article on the link I posted above, this part must have a strong basis:

Interestingly, majority of the people of various educational background, whether they were without formal education or had elementary or secondary education or even finished college, were consistently not losing hope for the better. And neither the respondent’s age nor gender had any bearing on the people clinging to hope, or hoping against hope,

Those who conducted the survey are technically and professionally prepared and I would like to agree on their findings when they wrote:

Translated into bigger picture, the survey results may mean a slew of virtues among Filipinos ranging from perseverance to resilience, and from positivism to self-confidence and trust in their compatriots. It may also mean the Filipinos are getting bolder and daring in their struggle for survival.

The reason Philippines is corrupt and ignorant is you are OBLIVIOUS!!! YOU ARE BLIND!!! YOU CANNOT CONNECT THE DOTS!!! YOU ARE LIVING IN FANTASY!!!

I betcha you live in America. Americans tore down their ten commandments in public places. And what you cannot see is Americans are way way way way progressive than Philippine Roman Catholic fanatical religion.

If your GOD were there today in America, your GOD’s cruel and unusual punishments that routed the infirm, disabled, children, old people and innocents thru GREAT FLOOD, ORIGINAL SIN and FIRE AND BRIMSTONE, YOUR GOD WILL BE IN HANDCUFFS AND YOU WILL BE SCREAMING WITH JOY “HALLELUJAH FOR AMERICANS TO IMPRISON THIS TORMENTOR”

I believe Doc.Bobonyo also is in America. Doc reaped what the “devil” American has sown.

HAPPY December 25th!!! A celebration of historical, human Jesus Christ.

HAPPY, PROSPEROUS, NEW LIFE, NEW ATTITUDE, REENGINEERED TRAITS AND CHARACTER FOR THE NEW YEAR!@!!

Let us educate our fellow compatriots of the glaring obvious difference between GOD-BASHING civilized world (ie Europe and America) and GOD-FEARING Flippinos, latin america and the rest of poor religious countries.

If people prefer poor and religious. GOOD! STOP BASHING THE GOVERNMENT! Ask from GOD who promised us good life yet instead God blame it on us, poor Filipinos.

If people prefer being wealthy and secular. GOOD!

So much has changed. From Vatican’s marketing false advertisement “Ask and you shall receive” to modern day “you Filipinos are bunch of lazy idiots”

“……….But being born a Filipino you can not change what you are even if you change your citizenship. Better love your own people, do whatever you can to help transform the Filipinos to become one of the most respected people in the world. But prepare yourself if ever, the way is long. It will take many years to see a transformed Philippine society. ”

Are you sick of making the same resolutions year after year that you never keep? Why not promise to do something you can actually accomplish? Here are some resolutions that you can use as a starting point.

Here’s NEW YEAR’S RESOLUTION YOU CAN KEEP

1. Gain weight. At least 30 pounds.
2. Stop exercising. Waste of time.
3. Read less. Makes you think.
4. Watch more TV. I’ve been missing some good stuff.
5. Procrastinate more. Starting tomorrow.
6. Not date any of the Baywatch cast.
7. Spend more time at work, surfing with the T1.
8. Take a vacation to someplace important: like, to see the largest ball of twine.
9. Not jump off a cliff just because everyone else did.
10. Stop bringing lunch from home: I should eat out more.
11. Not have eight children at once.
12. Get in a whole NEW rut!
13. Start being superstitious.
14. Personal goal: bring back disco.
15. Not wrestle with Jesse Ventura.
16. Buy an ‘83 Eldorado and invest in a really loud stereo system.
17. Get the windows tinted. Buy some fur for the dash.
18. Speak in a monotone voice and only use monosyllabicwords.
19 . Only wear jeans that are 2 sizes too small and use a chain or rope for a belt.
20. Spend my summer vacation in Cyberspace.
21. Not eat cloned meat.
22. Create loose ends.
23. Get more toys.
24. Get further in debt.
25. Not believe politicians.
26. Break at least one traffic law.
27. Not drive a motorized vehicle across thin ice.
28. Avoid transmission of inter-species diseases.
29 . Avoid airplanes that spontaneously drop 1000 feet.
30. Not swim with piraanhas or sharks.
31. Associate with even worse business clients.
32. Spread out priorities beyond my ability to keep track of them.
33. Wait around for opportunity.
34. Focus on the faults of others.
35. Never make New Year’s resolutions again.

God waterboarded the earth when the world, then, was flat and the sun revolves around the earth. God drowned everyone as far away as the Philippines whose aborigines didn’t even know who Noah was nor the ten commandments. Disabled, old, infirm, pregnant women, defenseless children were waterboarded and drowned by LOVING GOD because of the sins of the FEW and only in PERSIA!!!! WATERBOARDING AND DROWNING is cruel and unusual punishment FROWNED UPON BY CIVILIZED THINKING WORLD!!! (i.e. Europe and America, of course, not Filipinos)

God watched Noah and his children led an incestious life. That’s why we came about.

Another cruel and unusual punishment approved by so called God is death thru Fire and Brimstone.

That is why God cannot appear in our lifetime because God is wanted by INTERNATIONAL HUMAN RIGHTS!!!

The civilized world, except Roman Catholic countries, save the enslave children paying for the sins of their fathers and great grandfathers and their forefathers in Africa. Civilized world, except Roman Catholic countries, paid off their father’s sins.

Yet, Roman Catholic and Christians around the world gleefully clap their hands every sunday recalling the original sins, the gruesome cruel and unusual punishment thru great flood and fire and brimstone.

Freaking weirdos!!!

SATAN IS GREAT!!! SATAN IS SILENT!!! SATAN IS MEEK!!! AND THE MEEK SHALL INHERIT THE EARTH!!!

God’s road to heaven is strewn with thorns. LAUGHABLE!!! Better off my parents made sure my road to manhood is not strewn with thorns.

Kabataan Pag-asa ng Bayan.—I’ve read this long time ago on Jose Rizal’s novel.

When I was growing-up I have a dream, I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: “We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal.”
I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slave owners will be able to sit down together at the table of brotherhood.
I have a dream that one day even the state of Mississippi, a state sweltering with the heat of injustice, sweltering with the heat of oppression, will be transformed into an oasis of freedom and justice.

ay mali….Kay Martin pala ang speech na iyan.Hehehe!

Anyway, during my school days my Sir and Madam would require us to memorize 1million words on the chapter of the book we currently have to remember. We need to cram a bunch more words into our heads to get 75% on the report card,soon we forget after the test with codigo penal. All my classmates were impressed on my answer on the test question,I always get 110 right out of 100 and that’s of course 10 was a sidenote to my teacher that if he won’t mark x on my test paper I will buy him Siopao bola-bola and coke with a bonus of 1 cartoon of Salem.Don’t ask me where I got those.US naval base was in Gapo that time and the guard on the gate saluted my eldest brother’s car.Most of my teachers died with lung cancer.

Of course! I was always stressed out with grammar and reading, even if there were time for communicative practice, I could not wait to have soup number 5 after enduring those torture avoiding the ass whacking of a majorette baton my teacher always have in his right hand.

Now, the teaching maybe,is different. Just say “Present” if the teacher call their name on the roll call without learning, the most important maybe,is to send their students to march on the stage on culmination exercise so that they can get their 13th month bonus..

Those people in the education ministry have no idea anyway, what it’s like in the public sector or how to solve problems in public schools because they all went to the best private schools sleeping in class. This fundamental problem means that the Lapuz ministry of education lacks understanding of what the public wants students to be taught, as well as how to teach students effectively.

Why don’t the parents complain or write more often about their disgust and the postmaster will deliver it to Lapuz desk.? (Oh! Damn me,!those parents could only write carabao English I suppose)

Now, Obama got elected, explaining how this fulfilled the American idea that anyone can become President of the United States. Soon after explaining this, Mr.Castro looked at his students in History class and said, “Isn’t that great? Too bad that is impossible for the students in public school. And unfortunately, all of the students understood what the teacher who’s suffering from COPD meant. There is no point in dreaming of becoming a topnotch politicians because those jobs are reserved for the kids whose parents can afford to send them to schools that specialize in producing future bureaucrats.You must have a Gonzales,Magsaysay,Garcia,Marcos,Zobel or Ayala last name and you must have a Meztizo or Meztiza blood to enter in Politics.–Only Jojo and Ruben got Lucky because of Cory,they waxed Cory’s table before serving coffee.

LOL.. people like you just like to generalize, probably you just got so mad because of what happened, enough reason to remind you of all the arrogant filipinos you met and forget those who are not… every race has arrogant people and you should just learn to be individualist -_-

I thought I was alone in this observation.True, there is none more difficult to deal with than a former slave who has achieved “something”. In his mind, he thinks he is above others. It is Biblical, as it describes how it is difficult when a former slave becomes his master’s wife. One very negative trait of many brown “natives” is pride. It is repulsive.